My GIANT MESS of a garage

Nice work.

I had my own situation, in a way. Back in 1990, I found a 1965 Newport convertible listed in the local paper. I went to look at it, they wanted $200. It wouldn't start, and the quarter panels were shot a long time ago. Anyhow, it followed me home. I could never find body parts for it. So it sat in my garage, and then I moved, and it cost me money to move it, and it sat in my garage some more. To get to the other side of the garage, I had to walk across the hood. Large cars are like that. Finally, I decided that either I am going to do something with it, or else I am going to send it to the junk yard.

Late in 2005, I asked a bodyman friend of mine if he would let me move that car into his shop and if he would teach me how to do body work. He said "Sure". Damned fool! Anyhow, I bought a parts car on eBay, and I dragged a trailer from Dayton, Ohio to just south of Fresno and picked up the most beautiful rolling chassis 1965 New Yorker coupe you have ever seen. Any rate, cut the quarter panels and trunk floor out of that one, welded it into the other one, and today I have a CC1 Ice Blue Newport convertible that I am really proud of.

So good things do come out of cluttered garages!